Shift Manager

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Shift Manager

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Job Title: Shift Manager
Location: Gatwick
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary/Rate: Annual Salary

Role Conditions

• Bonus scheme
• Monday to Thursday or Tuesday to Friday, working 07:00 – 17:00
• Up to 11% employer/5% employee pension contribution
• 22 days of annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
• Staff travel:
  • Standby flights from first day of employment
  • Standby flights on other operators after 6 months service
  • Annual bookable concession after 1 year service
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Private medical
• Free holiday parking at LHR

About the Role

On behalf of our client, a leading organisation in the aviation industry, we are currently recruiting for a Shift Manager to support their base and line maintenance activities. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic environment with a strong focus on safety, compliance and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure engineering practices are constantly delivered, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and processes
• Provide a safe working environment, drive and maintain safe and secure working practices with professional standards of work and housekeeping
• Deliver shift performance on quality, safety, operational, customer, financial, commercial and colleagues
• Drive engagement and builds effective relationships with trade unions, colleagues, stakeholders and partners by role modelling, embedding leadership and brand behaviours
• Maintain establishment and capability for shifts to support operation and finance plans
• Understand colleague performance, set and manage clear expectations
• Develop colleagues’ skills, capabilities and qualifications to support the operational requirements and talent pipeline for engineering
• Enable, empower and embed continuous improvement that delivers value added change

Candidate Requirements

• Demonstrable structured leadership or equivalent experience
• An Engineering Degree, other suitable qualification or Aircraft Maintenance B1/B2 Licence
• Evidence of leading technical teams to consistently deliver high performance in an operational, unionised environment
• Use of proven communication skills, engaging and influencing to deliver business objectives
• Evidence of identifying, leading and empowering change in an operational or service environment
• Demonstrates structured problem-solving skills to make fact-based decisions in a complex operational environment
• Sufficient technical knowledge to challenge the status quo and implement new ideas
• Right to live and work in the UK

Why Work with JMC Aviation?

At JMC Aviation, we specialise in aviation recruitment across engineering services and training to airlines, MROs and OEMs, leasing and asset management companies, and component overhaul organisations. With deep industry knowledge and a global network, we match the right talent to the right roles — contract or permanent.

• Industry-leading compliance support
• Fast onboarding and documentation assistance
• Dedicated recruitment consultant
• Placements across the globe
• Extensive experience and knowledge of the aviation sector

How to Apply

Submit your up-to-date CV, along with copies of right to work documents to samuel.fawkes@jmc-aviation.com.

Compliance & Equal Opportunities

JMC Aviation is committed to equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace. All applicants will be considered based on merit, qualification, and business need, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or background. We operate in full compliance with global aviation recruitment regulations.

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Job details

Ref: 22507

Type: Permanent

Location: London

Hiring Consultant: Samuel Fawkes

Job Type: Permanent

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